Becoming A Data Scientist Podcast Episode 0: Me!

Here is the first episode of the Becoming a Data Scientist Podcast, which is also available in video form!

(sorry for the poor video quality!)

In this episode, I talk a little about the podcast, I talk about my own background, and I introduce the Data Science Learning Club. Enjoy!
(Note: Episode 1, the first interview episode, comes out Monday 12/21!)

8 Comments

Yoly

Dec 15, 2015

Great first episode Renee.

You mentioned that for one of your final projects you used a random forest to predict which non-donors would become a first time donor in a given year. I’m curious as to what you used as features for this model, or at least, which data from the members did you have available.

Looking forward to the next episode!

Renee

Dec 15, 2015

Hi Yoly, that’s why I didn’t jump to publish… I need to make sure my features weren’t allowing any “data leakage” or anything. I remember including preferred college, preferred class year (usually their undergrad degree year), years since added to system, years since address updated (if we didn’t have an address for 10 years, then suddenly have it, they may become a donor), age (which isn’t always derivable from class year), and a few other things… When I do revisit it, I’ll blog about it!

Very detailed document, I loved it. For my Capstone Project for the Coursera Data Science Specialization I was limited to 5 pages max for the write-up so I couldn’t go into too much detail which sucked.

If this is what you can do “in a hurry” I can only imagine what you can do if you don’t rush it, hahaha. Very cool project. Congrats on the feedback by your professor.

Renee

Dec 17, 2015

haha thanks for the positive feedback – glad you liked it!

Renee

Jan 19, 2016

Somebody flagged this video as inappropriate and YouTube said they confirmed it and it got taken down! I can’t figure out which Community Guideline it could possibly have violated…. does anyone have any ideas?? I’m appealing it, of course.

I can’t even tweet about it right now because Twitter is down! LOL what happened to the internet?

shacharm

Jul 6, 2016

Hi – you mentioned an ML course in odu?
Would you be able to point to that course?